We broke down and gave him a Cell Phone!

We did say we were not going to get him a cell phone until he was twelve years old.  Well,  we changed our minds when he spent the night over a friends house and we were texting him through his iPad.  It worked out really well but when he goes to Boy Scout Camp he will not have his iPad and without a phone, I will not have any contact with him for a week.  Totally unacceptable!
So the phone was a must have.  He could not be any happier.